From owner-freebsd-questions Thu Mar 8 0:36: 1 2001 Delivered-To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Received: from guru.mired.org (okc-65-26-235-186.mmcable.com [65.26.235.186]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with SMTP id F1EF737B719 for ; Thu, 8 Mar 2001 00:35:57 -0800 (PST) (envelope-from mwm@mired.org) Received: (qmail 90838 invoked by uid 100); 8 Mar 2001 08:35:56 -0000 From: Mike Meyer MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Message-ID: <15015.17516.929108.193923@guru.mired.org> Date: Thu, 8 Mar 2001 02:35:56 -0600 To: "Ted Mittelstaedt" Cc: "Mike Meyer" , "Mark Ibell" , Subject: RE: Questions about dump/restore In-Reply-To: <001a01c0a7a3$9b331d20$1401a8c0@tedm.placo.com> References: <15014.55519.201567.162530@guru.mired.org> <001a01c0a7a3$9b331d20$1401a8c0@tedm.placo.com> X-Mailer: VM 6.89 under 21.1 (patch 14) "Cuyahoga Valley" XEmacs Lucid X-face: "5Mnwy%?j>IIV\)A=):rjWL~NB2aH[}Yq8Z=u~vJ`"(,&SiLvbbz2W`;h9L,Yg`+vb1>RG% *h+%X^n0EZd>TM8_IB;a8F?(Fb"lw'IgCoyM.[Lg#r\ Sender: owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG Ted Mittelstaedt types: > >-----Original Message----- > >From: owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG > >[mailto:owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG]On Behalf Of Mike Meyer > >However, if you want it, the best way to get it is to integrate the > >Net or Open versions into the Free version yourself, then send-pr a > >patch file. > No, no no! Mike, you know better than that - patches and code sent > to pr languish. Instead, e-mail it to the appropriate developer > who is working on that code. I've had different results with different developers. Some respond well to direct mail and poorly to PRs, others watch PRs but tend to ignore patches sent directly to them. A PR is the official method, so it's the one I recommend. Tagging it with "[PATCH]" makes people pay more attention to it (though that's not documented anywhere), but if you don't really have a patch, DO NOT do that! Submitting a PR, then if it's ignored for a while, ask for someone to check it on -current or -hackers seems to be the best route. Of course, giving the PR number to jkh at KW beats them all hands down, but is hard to manage :-). http://www.mired.org/home/mwm/ Independent WWW/Perforce/FreeBSD/Unix consultant, email for more information. To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message